Microsoft's top executive for mobile phones took shots at both iOS and Android today, calling Apple's operating system "boring" and claiming Google's is "a mess." Speaking at a conference hosted by the Wall Street Journal's All Things D, ...
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Google won't do anything to thwart Facebook's recently launched Home software for Android devices if it becomes explosively popular, according to Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt. Home, which became available for download April 1, ...
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Firstly, could you give me a quick recap of how 2012 was for Flair? Was the year better or worse than expected? 2012 was a challenging year in the UK, with the market being at best flat and trading being so late, but it was good for us. ...
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Microsoft's top executive for mobile phones took shots at both iOS and Android on Tuesday, calling Apple's operating system "boring" and claiming Google's is "a mess." Speaking at a conference hosted by the Wall Street Journal's All ...
Tags: IOS, Android, software, Computer Products
Today marked one of the biggest one-day HP events ever to hit the Middle East, with its Road To Innovation show stopping off at the Jumeriah Beach Hotel in Dubai. As well as hundreds of delegates, customers and guest speakers, it was also ...
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Citing a lack of data on hydraulic fracturing specific to their state, a team of University of California-Berkeley researchers this week released a report calling for better tracking of frack jobs and handling of fracking wastewater. In a ...
CA Technologies is suing a rival in the Application Performance Management (APM) market, accusing AppDynamics of using three of CA's patented technologies. The founder and CEO of AppDynamics helped lead software development at an APM ...
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A purported Microsoft roadmap for future releases of its Office suite showed a fall 2014 launch date for Office on Apple's iOS and Google's Android mobile operating systems, an online report said today. Mary-Jo Foley, who blogs at ZDNet, ...
Microsoft’s stock took a beating over the weekend after a pair of research firms said PC shipments in the first quarter were down as much as 14 percent from the year before. As of 4pm on Thursday, shares of Microsoft were down ...
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Salesforce.com is giving customers and partners access to a new set of tools and services for building mobile applications on its cloud platform. Like most enterprise software vendors, Salesforce.com is trying to cater to a world where ...
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Stormed by a shift to tablets and smartphones, and threatened, even in its enterprise bastion, by new demands from workers, Microsoft may lose its place at the table reserved for major technology players, an analyst argued today. But it's ...
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Red Hat has revised its JBoss Data Grid software package, which now offers the ability to replicate copies of data across different data centers. It also comes with a number of other new features that can limit downtime. Red Hat hopes ...
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Mozilla has added automatic third-party cookie-blocking to a preview version of Firefox 22, a move that will put the feature in most users hands by late June and the company on a collision course with the online ad industry. Advertising ...
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SAP has spent the past year wooing entrepreneurs around the world in hopes they'll be entranced enough by its much-hyped HANA in-memory database to build products and even entire companies around the technology. On Friday, SAP brought the ...
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The easy upgrades to Windows XP have already been done, migration experts said, predicting that a large number of enterprises will still be running the aged OS a year from now. Microsoft plans to retire Windows XP from all support, ...
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